Sessions:
Primary Resources @ the Library of Congress (see the handout above)
February 2015
Media Center Statistics February 2015
Sunday, August 28, 2011
Creating Animated Media Festival Projects
If you could not attend the annual LCSS Media & Technology Showcase do not worry! You can rustle up your handouts at the Media Matters@ LCSS blog!
Tuesday, July 26, 2011
Sunday, July 17, 2011
Liberty County Media and Technology Showcase
Each year media specialists are invited to attend the Liberty County Media & Technology Showcase. The showcase is a great way to meet new vendors, learn new media related skills, and make new friends. Did I mention this is a free event? This year workshops will include topics:
- Animate This! Creating an Animation Media Festival Project with Free Online Resources
- Using Primary Resources and the Library of Congress to Teach
- Where does the iPad fit in Your Media Program?
- Cyber Safety Round Table Discussion
- Telling Stories with Puppets!
The event will be Thursday, September 1st from 8:00AM until 1:00PM. Email Jaime Rearley- jrearley@liberty.k12.ga.us if you would like to attend!
Helen Ruffin Reading Bowl Book Club
Teachers, paraprofessionals, and media specialists have been reading and taking notes this summer. Soon they will come together to create questions for this year's Helen Ruffin Reading Bowl!
This year during the professional learning class Liberty County offers, the technology focus of the class will be using the MacBook Pro, Keynote, iPhoto, GarageBand, and the iPad to create interesting book trailers!
Wednesday, April 20, 2011
Reading Bowl Students are Recognized
Recently at the April 14th Liberty County Board of Education Meeting students and coaches from each school were recognized as part of the good news portion of the meeting.
As in years past all of the elementary, middle, and high schools in Liberty County had a student team participate in the county level bowl.
The first and second place winners were able to advance to the Southern Region Helen Ruffin Reading Bowl. Joseph Martin Elementary, Waldo Pafford Elementary, Lewis Frasier Middle, Midway Middle, Liberty County High, and Bradwell Institute all advanced to the the regional bowl this year.
The competition was very stiff at the regional level only Joseph Martin Elementary, Midway Middle, and Liberty County High School were able to advance to the Division II Helen Ruffin Reading Bowl. Midway Middle and Liberty County High School were recognized for participation, and Joseph Martin Elementary earned second place.
As in years past all of the elementary, middle, and high schools in Liberty County had a student team participate in the county level bowl.
The first and second place winners were able to advance to the Southern Region Helen Ruffin Reading Bowl. Joseph Martin Elementary, Waldo Pafford Elementary, Lewis Frasier Middle, Midway Middle, Liberty County High, and Bradwell Institute all advanced to the the regional bowl this year.
The competition was very stiff at the regional level only Joseph Martin Elementary, Midway Middle, and Liberty County High School were able to advance to the Division II Helen Ruffin Reading Bowl. Midway Middle and Liberty County High School were recognized for participation, and Joseph Martin Elementary earned second place.
The reading lists for next year's bowl have already been released. Several copies of each book have been ordered at all of the schools, and students have already started to read!
You can see the reading list for next year's bowls at the HRRB home page. Click on the title of this posting to go to the page.
Teen Tech Week in Liberty County!
The Young Adult Library Services Association has sponsored a national event known as Teen Tech Week since 2007. The primary goal of the week is to demonstrate to teens that the library or media center is an important piece of the technology puzzle.
During the week of March 6-8, high schools in Liberty County scheduled special events and c
ontests to utilize technology with students. The events scheduled helped teens and teachers to hone their technology skills and have a lot of fun along the way!
Several classes scheduled time in the media center to learn how to transform digital images into interactive learning tools using Microsoft Excel with the help of Nikki Lukkarinen, a media specialist at Bradwell Institute. Teachers and students were taught how to add roll-over labels to maps and diagrams in a fun and fast paced technology workshop.
Miriam Hudson, a media specialist at Bradwell Institute, taught several groups of teens and teachers how to use Microsoft’s Photostory. It is a free picture editing presentation software that enables users to import digital pictures, add panning effects, text, transitions, music, and narration. Teens and teachers enjoyed seeing their photographs come to life during the workshop.
Teen Tech Week at Bradwell Institute culminated in a unique use of technology. Mrs. Lukkarinen worked with the physical education classes to infuse gaming technology- Wii’s Just Dance 2. Teens and teachers had the chance to exercise their gaming skills and their bodies at the same time.
At Liberty County High School and Bradwell Institute a bingo game was played in which the students picked up a player’s card from the media center which listed several different activities that had to be completed using a computer or other forms of technology. Each activity completed had to be verified with either a teacher’s or a media specialist’s signature. The winner at Liberty High was Aaron Place, who received a Panther flash drive.
Both Liberty and Bradwell offered the challenge of a Technology Trivia quiz as well. Students were given a list of approximately 20 questions to answer about the history of technology, acronyms, people related to the field, etc. They were allowed to use any means necessary to find the answers – other than asking an adult – as in encyclopedias, reference books, etc., as well as online. Liberty’s winner was Daneisha Norman, who received a Panther flash drive.
During the week of March 6-8, high schools in Liberty County scheduled special events and c
ontests to utilize technology with students. The events scheduled helped teens and teachers to hone their technology skills and have a lot of fun along the way!Several classes scheduled time in the media center to learn how to transform digital images into interactive learning tools using Microsoft Excel with the help of Nikki Lukkarinen, a media specialist at Bradwell Institute. Teachers and students were taught how to add roll-over labels to maps and diagrams in a fun and fast paced technology workshop.
Miriam Hudson, a media specialist at Bradwell Institute, taught several groups of teens and teachers how to use Microsoft’s Photostory. It is a free picture editing presentation software that enables users to import digital pictures, add panning effects, text, transitions, music, and narration. Teens and teachers enjoyed seeing their photographs come to life during the workshop.
Teen Tech Week at Bradwell Institute culminated in a unique use of technology. Mrs. Lukkarinen worked with the physical education classes to infuse gaming technology- Wii’s Just Dance 2. Teens and teachers had the chance to exercise their gaming skills and their bodies at the same time.
At Liberty County High School and Bradwell Institute a bingo game was played in which the students picked up a player’s card from the media center which listed several different activities that had to be completed using a computer or other forms of technology. Each activity completed had to be verified with either a teacher’s or a media specialist’s signature. The winner at Liberty High was Aaron Place, who received a Panther flash drive.
Both Liberty and Bradwell offered the challenge of a Technology Trivia quiz as well. Students were given a list of approximately 20 questions to answer about the history of technology, acronyms, people related to the field, etc. They were allowed to use any means necessary to find the answers – other than asking an adult – as in encyclopedias, reference books, etc., as well as online. Liberty’s winner was Daneisha Norman, who received a Panther flash drive.
Friday, March 4, 2011
Lewis Frasier Middle Schools visits with the Cat in the Hat
Today the Cat in the Hat visited Lewis Frasier Middle School in honor of Dr. Seuss and his birthday. Mrs. Graves and Ms. Bush brought their students to the media center for a visit with the Cat in the Hat. Students participated in a readers' theater of Green Eggs and Ham. Afterward students compiled their tally results to create a Tagxedo using the words from the story.
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